It’s the biggest Boisjoly by bounds when none other than Anty’s friendly rival Inspector Wittersham is the only suspect in a locked-room murder.

Of course Anty doesn’t believe that Inspector Wittersham murdered a prisoner locked in a cell to which only he had the key, but the more twists and secrets and hidden treasure he digs up, the more evidence he finds that proves Wittersham guilty.

To save his friend, Anty must draw on his judgemental mum, woolly valet, a constable named Constable, a goat of dubious loyalties, endless eccentrics, and his own depths of wit and anecdote as he delves deeply into the history of medieval England and the dark mysteries of his own family.

With your help and by popular demand, Tim Bruce will return to reproduce Anty, Inspector Wittersham, Vickers, Anty’s mum, a vast cast of eccentrics, and the much-anticipated scene in which Anty and Ivor impersonate one another.

Golden-age gadabout Anty Boisjoly, his valet Vickers, the weary and wary Inspector Wittersham, and a passenger list of howling eccentrics find themselves prey to the sway and spray of the Scilly Seas when what at first seems a simple, unexplainable, locked-stateroom murder twists into a tale of pirate treasure, perilous weather and treacherous endeavours at sea.

Tim Bruce voices a vast cast of passengers and crew including a seasick Wittersham, our first encounter with Anty’s cousin Teddy Quillfeather, a pirate and, finally and foremost, his parrot.